In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is the sounddance and thereinofter you're in the unbewised again,

• "in the beginning was the word": John, i.1

• "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Genesis 1.2

• bug: (Danish) belly (in Mary's belly was the word to become flesh, Jesus)

• bug-inn: i.e. Earwicker's inn

• inning: a cricket term (cricket might be associated with insects again)

• muddle: after the word comes Babel

• in the middle is the sentence: created from the initial word

• the sound-dance: think about Joyce's dancing daughter; FW might be seen as a series of dancing movements

• thereinafter you're nothing wiser than before

• Unbewusst: ('German, : unconscious (Freudian but also Wagnerian term)